"Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones, also called The Mad Messiah, is a 1980 television miniseries about the Peoples Temple led by Jim Jones, and their 1978 mass suicide at Jonestown. Based on the book by Charles A. Krause, entitled ""Guyana Massacre: The Eyewitness Account"", the film was originally shown on television on April 15, 1980. The film draws on ""Guyana Massacre: The Eyewitness Account"" and reports from ""The Washington Post"" at the time, to describe the life of Jim Jones from a 1960s idealist to the November 1978 mass murder/suicide of"
"a Methodist Minister, and conducted the funeral of his manager Gordon Hodgson, following his sudden death in June 1951. In 1970, Peter Knowles voluntarily left his career as a footballer with Wolverhampton Wanderers to follow the Christian denomination, Jehovah's Witnesses. In 1991 folk-rock musician Billy Bragg released a song, ""God's Footballer"", on his album ""Don't Try This at Home"" inspired by Knowles' story. Midfielder Gavin Peacock became a Christian during his first spell with QPR aged 18 and later left the UK to become a pastor in Calgary, Canada. Jermain Defoe has credited his Christian faith as helping him in"
"Ishigaki Ju Jitsu Club began in 1994 and pride's itself on being the ""Only LGBT Ju Jitsu Club in the World'. The first decade of the 21st century saw two high-profile Welsh rugby union figures come out while active. First, in 2007, international referee Nigel Owens came out. Then, in 2009, Gareth Thomas, at the time the country's most-capped player (and later a rugby league international), came out. Thomas was believed to be the first professional male player in a team sport to come out while active. In 1990, Justin Fashanu became the first openly gay British footballer. He died"
"by beating Nottingham Forest 1–0 in the FA Cup quarter-final replay. 12 March 1981: Ken Brown continues to build for the future of First Division strugglers Norwich City by paying Queens Park Rangers £225,000 for 22-year-old goalkeeper Chris Woods. Meanwhile, Liverpool sign 23-year-old Vancouver Whitecaps and Zimbabwe goalkeeper Bruce Grobbelaar for £250,000. 14 March 1981: The League Cup final ends in a 1–1 draw between Liverpool and West Ham United. 25 March 1981: Spain beat England 2–1 in a friendly at Wembley. 31 March 1981: Ipswich Town lose 3–0 away to Leeds United but remain one point ahead of second"
"First Division football to the club for the first time ever. 2 December 1990 – Arsenal end Liverpool's unbeaten League run by beating them 3–0 at Highbury. 4 December 1990 – Luton Town win the Soccer Six at the G-Mex Centre, beating Liverpool 4–0 in the final. 13 December 1990 – Southampton pay £1million for a player for the first time in their history by signing midfielder Alan McLoughlin from Swindon Town. 19 December 1990 - Arsenal captain Tony Adams is sentenced to four months in prison for drink-driving after being more than three times over the legal alcohol limit"
"Jones chaired the Gosport Independent Panel, an independent panel which wrote a report published on 20 June 2018, which found that 456 deaths at the Gosport War Memorial Hospital in Gosport, Hampshire, England, in the 1990s had ""followed inappropriate administration of opioid drugs"". In his introduction, the bishop says: Jones married Sarah Marrow in 1980 and they have three daughters. Jones was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to bereaved families and justice. James Jones (bishop) James Stuart Jones, (born 18 August 1948) is a retired Church"
"scout and then manager. Dick Beattie worked in the shipyards following his release from prison. He died in 1990. Esmond Million emigrated to Canada where he became active in professional ice hockey. Keith Wiliams pursued his footballing career in South Africa. Ken Thomson died of a heart attack on a golf course in 1969. Jack Fountain died in August 2012. Tony Kay had the highest profile of those implicated. He had been transferred to Everton in December 1962, a few weeks after the Ipswich Town v Sheffield Wednesday match and midway through the 1962–63 season. He would help Everton win"
"of 2016) remains the club's highest post-war league finish. In 1966 the club reached its fifth FA Cup final, but they were beaten 2–3 by Everton, having led 2–0. Off the field the club was embroiled in the British betting scandal of 1964 in which three of its players, Peter Swan, David Layne and Tony Kay, were accused of match fixing and betting against their own team in an away game at Ipswich Town. The three were subsequently convicted and, on release from prison, banned from football for life. The three were reprieved in the early 1970s, with Swan and"
"he had a brief spell as caretaker manager between the departure of Brian Flynn and arrival of Denis Smith. In 2005, Jones completed his autobiography entitled ""Oh Joey, Joey!"" about his life in football. This was a book of the week on Sky Sports News in February 2006. Also in 2005, Jones was named as Wrexham's ultimate Cult Hero on BBC TV's Football Focus. Jones is much respected by Liverpool supporters and he finished in 63rd place in the 2006 poll of all-time favourite Liverpool players (100 Players Who Shook The Kopofficial Liverpool Football Club web-site). 110,000 fans worldwide had"
"particularly high intensity by a 6–3 scoreline. A total of 50 persons were injured, almost all of them children, with 13 detained in hospital suffering serious injuries and one fatality among them: a nine-year-old boy named James Ryan from Bridgeton whose chest was crushed. During the Fatal accident inquiry the following February his uncle stated that James had been lifted over the wall onto the track only seconds before it collapsed, and other boys who were injured also stated that they had still been in the stand at the time the goal was scored and had jumped over the wall"
"after his death by ""Ipswich Star"" and ""East Anglian Daily Times"" editor Brad Jones. Ipswich Town Kevin Beattie Thomas Kevin Beattie (18 December 1953 – 16 September 2018) was an English footballer. Born into poverty, he played at both professional and international levels, mostly as a centre-half. He spent the majority of his playing career at Ipswich Town with whom he won both the FA Cup and the UEFA Cup. He was also named the inaugural Professional Footballers' Association Young Player of the Year at the end of the 1972–73 season and featured in the film ""Escape to Victory"" alongside"
"Jimmy Hill, Coventry City’s Highfield Road became England’s first all-seater football stadium in 1981. However, the experiment failed to prevent disorder or increase attendances and two years later seats were removed from part of the ground. On 15 April 1989 a crush on the Leppings Lane terrace of Hillsborough during an FA Cup semi final resulted in the deaths of ninety-six Liverpool supporters. Overcrowding had resulted from a gate being opened on police instructions to relieve severe congestion outside the ground and failure to direct supporters away from the already full central pens. Fences at the front of the terrace"
"to beat Everton 3–2 in the final. The Hillsborough inquest states fans were unlawfully killed due to the lack of police support. On 17 March 2012, a Fifth Round tie between Tottenham Hotspur and Bolton Wanderers was abandoned after 41 minutes with the score at 1–1, when Bolton midfielder Fabrice Muamba suffered a cardiac arrest on the pitch. Muamba later retired from the sport following medical advice, after his heart stopped beating for 78 minutes and remained in intensive care for two weeks. Tottenham won the rearranged fixture 3–1. In 1894, Notts County became the first club outside the top"
"in the FA Cup final were league runners-up Arsenal. But the biggest surprise of the season came with Ipswich Town, who were newly promoted to the Premiership after five years away and most people's favourites for the drop. Ipswich surprised all the observers by challenging for a place in the top-three and eventually winding up in fifth place, enough to merit UEFA Cup qualification. It was the Suffolk club's highest league finish since 1982. Newly promoted Charlton Athletic finished an impressive ninth, while Leicester City started the season as unlikely title contenders, but lost nine of their final ten Premiership"
"celebrated a 2–1 win over Queens Park Rangers F.C.. Just over four years after the alleged curse ended, Birmingham City finally won the first major final in their history – beating Arsenal 2–1 to win the League Cup at Wembley. English football side Derby County were placed under a curse by a group of Romani Gypsies who were forced to move from a camp so that they could build their stadium, the Baseball Ground. The curse was that Derby County would never win the FA Cup. This mirrors the curse placed on Birmingham City F.C.. Despite reaching six FA Cup"
"Lady Sarah Armstrong-Jones, only daughter of Princess Margaret, to the actor Daniel Chatto in 1994. He was made an honorary prebendary of St Paul's Cathedral in 1975, becoming senior prebendary in 1997. He retired in 2003, aged 92, by which time he was the oldest incumbent in the Church of England. Varah began to understand the problems facing the suicidal when he was taking a funeral as an assistant curate in 1935, his first church service, for a fourteen-year-old girl who had taken her own life because she had begun to menstruate and feared that she had a sexually transmitted"
"record for most tries in test matches. He was famous for his goose step and reverse pass. Welsh international Gerald Davies was influential in helping the British Lions become the only Lions touring party to win a Test series in New Zealand. Ieuan Evans played 72 games for Wales and scored 33 tries – at that time a record for Wales. In 1994, International Rugby Hall of Famer John Kirwan retired as the (then) most capped player and highest try scorer in All Black history, Jonah Lomu entered the International Hall in 2007 and the IRB Hall of Fame in"
"May 2000 — Chelsea beat Aston Villa 1–0 in the last FA Cup final to be played at Wembley before the 77-year-old stadium is rebuilt. Roberto Di Matteo, who scored for Chelsea in the opening minute of their 1997 triumph, scores the only goal of the game. 29 May 2000 — Ipswich Town seal promotion to the Premier League after a five-year exile by defeating Barnsley 4–2 in the Division One playoff final at Wembley. It is their first win at Wembley since they won the FA Cup in 1978. 30 May 2000 — Arsenal sign Cameroon defender Lauren for"
"clubs in 1991–92 and 24 clubs in 1992–93, with no relegation to the Football Conference for the next two seasons. 2 June 1990 – England struggle to a 1–1 draw against Tunisia in Tunis in their final World Cup warm–up match. 5 June 1990 – Leeds United prepare for their First Division comeback with a £1million move for Gary McAllister of Leicester City. Three England fans receive 20–day prison sentences imposed by a court in Sardinia after being found guilty of theft and criminal damage. 6 June 1990 – Manchester United pay Oldham Athletic £625,000 for Irish full–back Denis Irwin."
"Chinese wrestling, shuai jiao. The school contains memorials to a former teacher, Shelley Baisden, who died of cancer and to a popular teenager, Yibi Matthews, who died of HIV contracted at birth. Yibi Matthews was remembered as the boy with the big smile and his father, Rev David Matthews described Yibi's times at the school as ""among his happiest"". Also Mrs. Wait a learning mentor who suffered a long and hard battle with cancer Television actor Rocky Marshall studied at the school in the late 1980s. Ipswich Town footballer Jamie Griffiths studied at the school from 2006–08 and currently plays"
"by the Right Reverend James Jones, the Bishop of Liverpool, was attended by past and present Liverpool players, including Robbie Fowler, Steve McManaman and Alan Hansen. According to the BBC report: """"The names of the victims were read from the memorial book and floral tributes were laid at a plaque bearing their names."""" A gospel choir performed and the ceremony ended with a rendition of ""You'll Never Walk Alone"". The anniversary was also marked by a minute's silence at the weekend's league games and FA Cup semi-finals. In 2009, on the 20th anniversary of the disaster, Liverpool's request that their"
"one of which was transformed into an outdoor ""Peace Garden"" without a roof due to a fire before the group materialised; the other renovated into a ""Community Hub"". The parish church, St Mary's, located on Church Street, is a Grade II listed building. The parish also contains the Anglican church of St George, St Michael and All Angels Roman Catholic church, Wombwell Pentecostal Church, a Salvation Army Hall and a Methodist Church. The town has had a number of football teams - Mark Jones, one of the eight Manchester United players who died in the Munich air disaster of 6"
"zone. 1 April 1987 – England keep up their 100% record in the European Championship qualifiers with a 2–0 win over Northern Ireland at Windsor Park in their third qualifying game. 2 April 1987 – Former Aston Villa and Wales midfielder Trevor Hockey dies of a heart attack at the age of 43 after collapsing during a charity football match in West Yorkshire. 5 April 1987 – Arsenal win the League Cup, beating Liverpool 2–1 in the final at Wembley. 9 April 1987 – Fourth Division side Halifax Town become the first Football League members to be run by their"
"the Trophy, even though they were also relegated from EFL League One the same season. On Monday, 31st July, 2017, Stuart hosted his BBC Radio Northampton Breakfast Show live from Shrewsbury Forest at the Ypres Salient, the area around Ypres in Belgium which was the scene of some of the biggest battles in World War I. It was the 100th Anniversary of the death of Edgar Mobbs, the English rugby union footballer who played for and captained Northampton Saints and England. Mobbs was killed in action, on 31 July 1917, at Shrewsbury Forest during the Third Battle of Ypres while"
"Ipswich Town to fifth place in the Premiership and achieved qualification for the UEFA Cup. Gérard Houllier won a treble of trophies with Liverpool after they triumphed in the FA Cup, League Cup and UEFA Cup. Sir Alex Ferguson became the first manager in English football to win three successive league titles after Manchester United (only the fourth team in history to win three straight titles) topped the Premiership's final table for the third year in a row. Alan Curbishley consolidated newly promoted Charlton Athletic in the Premiership with a ninth-place finish, their highest finish in nearly 50 years. Jean"
"member of the town's archery club. John Jones (born 1930 in Church Stretton) is a British rower who competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki with the men's coxless four where they came fourth. In the 1930s, E. M. Almedingen, the biographer and children's writer, lived in the town, and, following retirement, the writer Kenneth Bird moved to Church Stretton. The 'White House' nursing home on Sandford Avenue, demolished in 2006 to make way for a housing development, was previously the family home of Silvester Horne a Congregationalist minister, Liberal MP for Ipswich, and father of the BBC broadcaster"
"On the same day, Ipswich Town manager John Lyall announces that he will become the club's director of football, and that Mick McGiven will take over as first-team manager. 12 August 1993 – Chelsea buy midfielder Gavin Peacock from Newcastle United for £1.2million, while Everton's longest-serving player Kevin Ratcliffe leaves Goodison Park after 15 years and joins Cardiff City on a free transfer. 14 August 1993 – On the opening day of the Premier League season, Coventry City pull off a major surprise by beating Arsenal 3–0 in the first game at the new all-seater Highbury, with Micky Quinn scoring"
"Ryan Giggs winning the game, while Liverpool's Steven Gerrard is sent off. 10 January 2011: Macclesfield Town midfielder Richard Butcher dies suddenly aged 29, just 10 months after Keith Alexander, who had brought him to the club. 12 January 2011: Ipswich Town beat Arsenal in the first leg of the League Cup semi-final 1–0 at Portman Road, three days after losing 7–0 in the FA Cup at Chelsea. 15 January 2011: Bolton Wanderers and England legend Nat Lofthouse dies aged 85. 25 January 2011: Arsenal reach the Football League Cup final with a 3–1 aggregate victory over Ipswich Town in"
"was erected to his memory in the south transept of St. Paul's Cathedral by the officers of the corps of royal engineers. Jones was mainly associated with Middlesex. He made six known appearances in first-class matches from 1814 to 1819. On 20 April 1816 Jones married, in London, Catherine Maria, daughter of Effingham Lawrence of New York City. He had three sons and a daughter. His eldest son, Sir Lawrence, was murdered by robbers on 7 November 1845 when travelling between Macri and Smyrna, and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his brother Willoughby, who died in 1884, and whose"
"tape' between goalposts as a precedent to the 'crossbar'. The referee and the captain player for each team are introduced. Arsenal F.C. is founded. The first football team in South America is founded, Gimnasia y Esgrima de La Plata, Argentina. British introduce football to Russia. Hamburger SV is founded. Hibernian F.C. wins the Football World Championship against Preston North End, 2–1 in Edinburgh. The Football League, the world's first national football league competition, is founded in England by Aston Villa director William McGregor. Celtic F.C. is founded. Renton F.C. wins the Football World Championship against West Bromwich Albion, 4–1 in"
"and Hungarian Football Federation are founded. The first international match between South American national teams is played between Uruguay and Argentina, and ends 2–3. The match between Tottenham Hotspur F.C. and Hearts of Midlothian F.C. for the Football World Championship finishes 0–0, in London. Hibernian win Scottish Cup on 23 April. Club Atlético River Plate, C.F. Pachuca is founded. 26 people die and over 500 are injured when a section of the terracing collapses after a Scotland-England British Home Championship match at Ibrox Park. Five Spanish clubs compete for the first ""Copa del Rey"". The first Brazilian football league, Campeonato"
"world's worst legionnaires' disease outbreaks occurred in Barrow in October 2002. Ultimately 7 people died as a result of contracting the disease, while a further 172 cases were confirmed at the hospital. The Furness General Hospital scandal involved an investigation by Cumbria Constabulary and other government and public bodies into the deaths of several mothers and newborn babies at the hospital. Cases dated back to 2004, with a number of major incidents occurring in 2008. The death of Joshua Titcombe and a suppressed report by the Morecambe Bay NHS Trust brought the spotlight onto the hospital in 2011 when investigations"
"by a fellow team member's foot. In the final of Euro 92, Denmark surprisingly win 2–0 over Germany. Stadium Furiani disaster takes place in Bastia, Corsica. FA Premier League created as the top flight in English Football. The first FIFA Confederations Cup is organized in Saudi Arabia, and won by Argentina. Capello's Milan wins Serie A unbeaten. Olympique de Marseille becomes the first French club to win the European Cup, newly renamed as the UEFA Champions League, defeating AC Milan 1–0 at the Olympiastadion in Munich. Marseille also win Ligue 1, but are stripped of the title due to a"